Some Organizational Changes to Fedora Silverblue

by Matthias Clasen and Sanja Bonic – December 12, 2018

Fedora Silverblue is growing and Fedora in general has a new strategy. In order to reflect this, we have decided to only use the Fedora Silverblue website at Fedora (that means no more teamsilverblue) and ask the community about their preference regarding where the sources and issue tracker shall live. Please vote by December 20, 2018. You can also find the long-term planning on where things should be in the voting thread.

Fedora 29 has been released today!

by Matthias Clasen and Sanja Bonic – October 30, 2018

This is a big milestone for us. Silverblue is part of a Fedora release for the first time.
If you haven't yet, please try the Fedora 29 Silverblue variant and tell us what you think!

And just in time for Fedora 29, we have the first version of the Fedora Toolbox ready for
testing as well!

The toolbox is using container technology to bring back your familiar tools and development
environment on top of the immutable Silverblue base, for the best of both worlds.

Congratulations, Flatpak!

We in Team Silverblue are all excited and happy to use Flatpak 1.0 as the solid
foundation for application deployment and execution in Fedora Silverblue.

Keep it coming! ️💓📦💓📦

Welcome to the party, Fedora CoreOS!

by Matthias Clasen and Sanja Bonic – June 21, 2018

As we learned yesterday, the Fedora family is growing!

We in Team Silverblue are all excited and happy that Fedora CoreOS will join us to
push the limits of immutable operating systems and container technology in the larger
Fedora family.

If you are interested in helping out, please join Team Silverblue.
And if you think your use case would be a good fit for an image-based desktop OS,
we'd like to hear from you!

We aim to make good progress on this project for Fedora 29 and plan to make Silverblue
the preferred Workstation variant by Fedora 30.

Visit the Fedora Silverblue website to learn
more and follow us on Twitter to get the
latest updates.

A look around Team Silverblue

by Matthias Clasen and Sanja Bonic – May 23, 2018

A few weeks ago, we introduced Team Silverblue as a new initiative in Fedora.

Now it is time to take a deeper look and see what the project is about and how it works.

Goals and Deliverables

Before we chose the name Team Silverblue, the team was the Fedora Atomic Workstation SIG,
and the Atomic Workstation is what we are producing, now under its new name,
Silverblue. At its core, it is a variant of the Fedora Workstation which uses
rpm-ostree to provide an immutable OS image with reliable updates and easy rollbacks.

The concrete goals of the Team Silverblue project are to provide excellent support for
container-based workflows and make Silverblue the preferred variant of Fedora Workstation.
We want to reach these goals by the time Fedora 30 is released.

To get there, we need to close a number of remaining gaps in the Flatpak and OSTree support
in GNOME Software, and improve the support for contrainer-based workflows in the desktop.

Install all desktop apps as Flatpaks

Support package layering for OS extensions in GNOME Software

Good support for "pet containers" in the desktop

Support rollbacks in GNOME Software

Support rebases in GNOME Software

Support kernel modules in rpm-ostree

You can take a look at our issue tracker
to find out more about these and other tasks.

Infrastructure

Like most projects, Fedora Silverblue has a website
(the one you're on now, in fact). It serves as the central point for information around Silverblue.
Over time, we hope to make this a go-to place for learning more about Linux and containers.

The Silverblue iso image and OSTree repository are built and hosted in the Fedora build
infrastructure.

If you want to get in touch with team members, there are several ways:

The Silverblue community is an excellent
place to ask a question or discuss Silverblue topics

Alternatively, there is a &num;silverblue IRC channel on freenode

If you want to report an issue or make a suggestion, you can use the issue tracker

Introducing Team Silverblue

by Matthias Clasen and Sanja Bonic – May 4, 2018

Good news, everyone! In some parts of the world it is still May the 4th. And with this date comes great responsibility. Let's talk about Silverblue.

The Atomic variant
of Fedora Workstation has been around for a few years. It has been a low-key operation that
only a few people knew about and used. By now, most of the necessary pieces of infrastructure
for a good desktop experience have fallen into place, and it is time to bring the Atomic
Workstation to a bigger audience.

Atomic Workstation is dead. Long live Silverblue.

The Team Silverblue project is about taking the last few steps for turning
the Atomic Workstation variant into a first-class product, and making it as good or better
than the traditional variant for most use cases. A particular focus will be on developers,
and we are working on better support for container-based workflows and pet containers
in the desktop.

If you are interested in helping out, please join Team Silverblue.
And if you think your use case would be a good fit for an image-based desktop OS,
we'd like to hear from you!

We aim to make good progress on this project for Fedora 29 and plan to make Silverblue
the preferred Workstation variant by Fedora 30.

Visit the Fedora Silverblue website to learn
more and follow us on Twitter to get the
latest updates.